Yoshizaki Gobo is the first point established when Honganji Renru was designated as a Buddha land by Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple in the third year of civilization (1471), and fled all the way to Hokuriku for refuge, and then relied on Yoshizaki Gobo to preach and absorb believers around, because it was located on the border of Echizen Province, so it was guarded by Echizen at that time, and the first governor of the Asakura clan, Asakura Toshikei, acquiesced, and then Honganji Renru focused the spread of believers in Kaga Province, and quickly gained complete control of Kaga Province, thus establishing the famous Kaga Ichijo.

As the Asakura family strengthened step by step and slowly stabilized the status of the lord of the country, after successfully completing the banishment of the lord of the main family Spo Yoshitoshi, and then turned back to deal with Echizen Yiyi, he found that this former inconspicuous sectarian power has exploded into a blood-devouring monster, because of the special sectarian attributes of this one, so that they can easily ignore all the imperial court laws and martial arts laws in the world, which is an arrogant and unreasonable expansion and development of believers, which makes several generations of family governors of the Asakura family have a headache and distress.

It can be said that this Echizen has always been a problem, that is, the existence of the Asakura family has been a historical legacy of nearly a hundred years ago, more than 50 years ago in the Echizen Province Sakai County broke out in the battle of the nine-headed dragon river, Asakura Munedri with a strong attack successfully defeated the main force of Echizen Ichi, and the Yoshizaki Imperial Workshop was once burned by the fire of the seven scattered pieces, which brought a major blow to the Ichizo family.

However, thirty years later, Yoshizaki Gobo once again became the base of the small one, and with the Chaokatsuji Temple Miyakuro in Hokuriku once again controlling this former Hokuriku Buddhist holy place, after two generations of reconstruction, although this Yoshizaki Gobo can no longer be compared with the powerful fortress of the past, it is still no problem as a point of the Chaokatsuji Temple.

From the side, it shows that the Asakura family has never been able to fully control Echizen Province. Even in the decades that followed, they repeatedly crossed Ono-gun to attack Kaga Province. Nor can it hide the problem of weak control. This time, the Asakura family seems to be determined to crusade against Echizen Ichi, and the primary goal is to target Yoshizaki Gobo.

The formation of the army can be said to be smooth, crossing the nine-headed dragon river without any obstruction, until the 20,000 troops in the Echizen country has always been the front line of the Horiekan circle of influence, not long after encountering the first resistance force, a force composed of about 300 people appeared in front of them, they panicked to pick up weapons and rushed to the Asakura family's military momentum, stunned to find that the leader of the Asakura army could not see the end at a glance. He hurriedly turned around and fled desperately to his grange.

It didn't seem like they were fighting a war because of their natural reaction after hearing that there was an invading army, and judging from their performance, it seemed that they were not prepared at all, and this strange reaction increased the suspicion of the samurai of the Asakura family, and Asakura Keidong asked suspiciously, "What kind of trick is this one trying to play?" Is it a trick to lure the enemy in? ”

"It doesn't look like it! You still have to be cautious, don't fall for the tricks of the Yizong sect! Asakura Keitaka was also puzzled about what Kaga had always been selling, and carefully instructed: "The order is not to respond to the battle without authorization, let alone leave the post without permission, and all samurai must not slack off in their spirits." ”

In an inconspicuous village near Yoshizaki Obo in Echizen Kunisakai County, dozens of peasants in tattered clothes and dirt on their faces gathered together to talk quietly, seemingly in a relaxed and laughing manner, not at all like rural peasants who were about to face an invasion of war.

From the outside, they were a bunch of ordinary peasants with no characteristics. Belong to the small characters who will be forgotten in the village after a while, and I have to say that they have any similarities. That is, they are all ordinary in appearance and very thin, but their eyes are not as dull as ordinary peasants, but exude a shrewd look that cannot be concealed.

No one would have thought that they were the famous Kira ninjas, and no one would have imagined that this group of Kira ninjas lurked in this small mountain village for nearly a year, and the original villagers of the entire village were all secretly controlled and transported to Echichu to disperse and settle, and the villagers in the village, regardless of gender, old and young, were all replaced by Kira ninjas according to their similar ages, and this small mountain village with only a few dozen families inadvertently became a ninja village in Sakai County, Echizen Province.

As early as the beginning of the year, Kira Yoshitoki ordered to deal with the Kinai Triple Alliance, and the tone he set was to use diplomatic tactics to contain the Miyoshi family, suppress the Asai family with the threat of military war, and use special methods such as the assassination of Kira ninja to disrupt and conceal the Asakura family.

The Kira ninjas didn't care about the execution of the other two steps, but they knew very well that their mission was going well, and they just instigated a few dead soldiers who had been cultivated for many years to blend into the ranks of the people controlled by the Kira ninjas, and easily executed a perfect assassination plan.

For the Kira ninja, the loss is nothing more than the young samurai who joined the Kira family because of their clan hatred, and they left descendants under the arrangement of the Kira ninja before the mission, and received a high pension to ensure that their children could grow up to become a samurai in peace, and then calmly made a voluntary commitment to give up their lives to carry out an assassination operation that would surely die.

The samurai of the Asakura family guessed very close to the truth, this operation was indeed the participation of the Kira family, the only inaccurate point is that there was no figure of Kaga Ichijomune, the so-called Sanrihama riot incident, from beginning to end, it was the assassination operation planned and carried out by the Kira ninja, but the name of Kaga Ichijomune was used to achieve the purpose of misleading the judgment of the Asakura family.

In order to ensure that Yoshizaki Gobo, which is across the river from Sakai County, and the officials in Sakai County, and the people of the country who are close to Ichisho Sect know the relevant information, the Kira ninja instigated no less than 200 elite ninjas, as well as more low-level ninjas and countless peripheral members, to hide the truth of the Sanrihama riot.

This astonishing news was pinched off by Kira Ninja several times and then spread to the ears of Kyoyoyoshi of Chaokatsuji Temple and Shimoma Lai Zhao, who was sitting in Ono County, and it became another matter, the "real" situation of the Sanrihama riots. became the favorite concubine of the Asakura family, and the little prime minister was pampered and proud. Offended Akuhime in words several times. It made the lady of the Asai family hold a grudge, so she thought about poisoning and killing this "fox spirit" little prime minister, so that she could be favored by Asakura Yoshikei and not shared with others.

And the little prime minister happens to have this intention, because everyone in Echizen Province knows that she is looking forward to becoming the wife of the main room, but she doesn't want to have an Akuhime and become pregnant, which makes her feel a huge pressure and has to think of killing Akuhime, so that she can be promoted to the main lady smoothly, and as the wife of a man's harem, there are no few reliable ways to harm people. The most reliable and easiest to execute is poisoning.

Japanese samurai also have a tradition of poisoning, Imagawa Shihui and his brother Imagawa Hikogoro died in Odawara Castle on the same day, it is rumored that they were poisoned to death, the most commonly used venom is the poison of the pufferfish, which is a method widely used in the Heian period, so the two women with ill intentions each prepared poison mixed with the daily diet and gave it to each other to eat.

In order to prevent unnecessary trouble caused by poisoning death on the spot, they would not die on the spot if the amount of poison they prepared was relatively small, so the next day the two were poisoned and died at different times, causing a riot, and the Asakura family said that the poisoning incident was stabbed by an unknown samurai in order to cover up this huge scandal.

Although it may sound like there are a lot of flaws. But what kind of virtue is the samurai, the monks of the sect are very clear, and a samurai family like the Asakura family can do all kinds of strange things. It is not once or twice that a father and son become enemies and brothers are on the wall, and it may not be credible for two women to murder each other at the same time, and it is more likely that there are some unpredictable palace conspiracies, but what does this have to do with Echizen Ichimune? Whatever they want.

So under the control of this conspiracy, it was so easy to deceive the monks, officials and other people of the Echizen Ichikozong, so that they mistakenly thought that the Asakura family was looking for a fig leaf to cover it all up, but they didn't know that the true and false information covered up a shocking conspiracy, and Echizen Ichishozong didn't know that his fate had been quietly set by the Kira family.

This group of Kira ninjas talked and laughed in a low voice, and occasionally looked out of the courtyard, and after a while, outside the courtyard walked in a mountain monk wearing a conch on his head, he seemed to be here to ask for a bowl of water to drink, as soon as he entered the courtyard to see so many people were a little surprised, he hurriedly folded his hands and saluted to apologize, pretending to urge the people ninjas were a little disappointed to take tea for the mountain monks to drink, and the mountain monks hurriedly saluted and thanked.

After most of this pot of tea was drunk, the monk suddenly took off his hat to reveal a young face, and a long hair that should not exist on the monk's head, Kira Ninja was slightly stunned in surprise and hurriedly saluted: "I'll wait to see Hattoriden!" ”

Hattori Masanari is the executive officer of this operation, and he is responsible for formulating, adjusting, supervising and punishing many other powers, which has a great deterrent effect on these Kira ninjas, he just shook his head casually and said: "You are still too careless, thinking that I am just a mountain monk and let down your vigilance, but do you know that my outfit is not a ninja sent by other samurai?"

For example, the Xuan Ape Ninja in the same system is very good at dressing up as a Yamanbush monk, and Kai's Penetrating is very good at dressing up as a ronin samurai, maybe the old people, children, wandering girls, etc. you have encountered may be enemy ninjas, and if you don't raise your vigilance, you will expose your own hiding, and then bring great harm to our ninjas. ”

Kira ninja was trained by him and did not dare to intervene to justify, as a samurai of the famous Kira family, he naturally had to abide by a large number of rules, even if it was a ninja hidden in an invisible place, this is different from the ninjas of Koga Iga who rely more on the prestige and ability of the ninja patriarch to support the development of the village, that form is more similar to the old elder system of the Somura group, and the ninja of the Kira family is a systematic samurai system that gets rid of the system of personal prestige to support small groups.

Hattori Masari slowly walked to the ninja community, carefully swept the faces of each ninja as if to remember their similarity, and then said slowly: "I know that you are very bitter and tired, in this place where there is no village and no shop for nearly a year, and you will feel the pain of loss and loss as any samurai, but you must remember your own identity, as a special samurai who can obtain merit without going to the battlefield to kill the enemy, don't you expect your descendants to have a status that is not inferior to those who are full of glory?"

His Royal Highness can meet all your needs, whether it is the supply of status, money, or the platform for the display of your own talents, but how many rewards you have must be equal or even more Fenggong, and the price of giving you everything that a samurai has is that you need to dedicate your freedom and even your life, and there is no free lunch in the world, you must be able to understand it! ”

"Hah! I'll get it! The ninjas bowed and replied, "We have already made the consciousness of self-sacrifice, please show me His Highness Hattori!" ”

Hattori Masasari smiled dumbly and said, "You misunderstood! His Royal Highness has no intention of sacrificing you, and I have come here to wish you all the best in advance, and His Royal Highness has praised you for doing a very good job, but you must not be complacent and still need to be cautious and successfully complete the remaining misleading actions, and the other is to suspend the implementation of the plan to provoke the Asakura family, and the line close to Fukuoka Yoshikiyo must be hidden as soon as possible, and everything is aimed at preserving yourself as the ultimate goal, and you can urgently retreat when necessary, and you must not take it upon yourself to be involved in deeper turmoil and expose your hiding. ”

Many Kira ninjas then bowed down to promise, as the first person of the new generation of Kira ninjas in the Kira family, Hattori Masari is very familiar with the training of Kira ninjas and is very satisfied, he is very clear about his own position and the position of the ninjas, that is, the eagle dog minions of the Kira family do some inconvenient things for Kira Yoshishi.

He has always believed that everything in the world alternates back and forth like night and day, and the shogunate needs benevolent and righteous teachers who crusade against their enemies in the open, as well as ninja chaos who hides in the corners to spy on intelligence and kill people, no matter what their names change, there will always be some people who will still do these dirty work.

Hattori Masanari will soon take over the position of Iga ninja leader from his uncle Hattori Masaaki, and he will become the second generation of Hattori Hanzo to lead hundreds of elite ninjas to gallop on the invisible battlefield, and before that he needs to face the level in front of him, which is equivalent to a personal assessment of him.

From an angle that Kira ninja couldn't see, Hattori Masanari secretly let out a sigh of relief: "His Royal Highness is only responsible for giving me a few key points of information, as well as a first draft of the Mogami Jingzhao Palace's plan, and let me let go of my hands and implement it according to my own ideas, this is trust and pressure!" Thankfully, I survived! The next step is unilateral inducement, and there is also an internal unrest to cooperate with Kansukeden's military action. (To be continued......)